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TIL though it has always been a fictional American city, the original artist of Superman modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto

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YnE7 TIL one of the reasons marijuana is not legal today is because cotton growers in the 30’s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition, even though it’s not chemically addictive
gjAW TIL that in order to popularize potatoes in France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier placed armed guards around his potato fields, instructing the guards to accept all bribes and allow people to “steal” the crop.
16MQr TIL that Coolio was actually in his early 30s when he recorded Gangsta's Paradise, and its iconic line "I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is goin' I don't know"
ADn67 TIL of "Maplewashing", which is a tendency of Canadian institutions to present Canada as a morally superior place
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